Donald Nieman

Donald G. Nieman is an authority on modern US law and politics and professor of history and provost emeritus at Binghamton University—State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic (forthcoming, October 2024) and Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776-Present, an influential history of civil rights in the US. His op-eds on contemporary American politics have appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, Huffington Post, and Salon, to name a few. His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and New York University School of Law.